Stop and Think
“I read today that mostly people speak with the intention of making themselves sound more important or invoking sympathy from the listener. I’ve been saying a lot less since I read that.” – Royce Vagg.
Better Living
Every day you should:
1. Make a decision that improves your health.
2. Compliment someone.
3. Do something to help the environment.
That way, you have a good excuse when your neighbor catches you planting trees on their nature strip at 3am.
Accountability
This is for all the would-be writers:
You could be writing right now. Stop browsing the internet. Even if you only write 100 words today, it’s 100 more than you’ll write browsing lolcats and 4chan for the next two hours. Yes, I see what you did there…
I, Aratika
Last Updated 1st January, 2012
Genre: Fantasy
Length: 97, 000 words
Status: Re-write
In Aratika’s world only the blessedfirst-born sons can marry and women are the possessions of their fathers or husbands. When Aratika’s father falls ill and her family can’t afford her, she is sent to a bride school and trained to be a good wife. Only to learn her future husband is a mere ghost and she is to live with her in-laws in his memory.
To escape her father-in-law’s brutality, she dresses as a third-born son and flees the temple to live as a priest. But the Speaker of the Sun is dying and winter storms bring famine. Is Aratika’s defiance of temple law the cause of this suffering? Or is she their only hope for redemption?
READ THE OPENING SCENE - coming soon
